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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by Shared404 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:28PM (#25463470)
> The iso downloader you can find on windows site is actually a assembler that assemble the iso on your disk from files on mincrosft server.

You can actually still get an iso, but you have to be using or spoofing a non-windows operating system (I've only tested Linux, but I would assume Mac/*BSD as well)

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by mmis1000 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:44PM (#25463960)
They only precompile iso for a few selected version, I think? You won't get something like xpSP1 or so. They also don't precompile iso for things like fast ring or other non stable version windows.

BTW, There is some third party assembler allow you to generate iso for whatever version you want(even some microsoft unsurpportrd versions).

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by Shared404 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:49PM (#25463984)
Interesting. At work we've got physical media for everything below 10, so I haven't needed any downloaded iso's there.

At home, I usually use something from the-eye.eu

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